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Focuses on the characteristics and programming of graphics output devices. Presents basic point and line drawing algorithms; 2-dimensional displays; clipping and windowing. Surveys pictures; data structures and display file organization; interaction (graphical input and event driven programs). Includes some drawing in 3-dimensions.
4 QH credit
Prerequisite: COM 1201, MTH 1301.
Course is offered during the Winter and Summer quarters. CS majors are guaranteed a place in class.
Winter 2001 Summer 2001
This is an elective course for BS CS majors and a 'focused elective' course for BA CS majors.
Professor Bryant York
Computer Graphics: C Version, 2nd Edition, Donald Hearn and Pauline Baker, Prentice Hall, 1997.
Technical Judgement and Assessment
Qualitative reasoning and common sense
Factors in decision making
Complexity, Design, and Abstraction
Course Catalog Prerequisites: COM 1201, MTH 1301.
Students should be capable of writing a 1000 line program in C/C++ and to have had some exposure to linear algebra. Practical linear algebra for computer graphics is reviewed at the beginning of the course.
Practical linear algebra for computer graphics 2D and 3D geometric transformations and viewing transformations Algorithms for basic output primitives - lines, circles, ellipses, splines Hierarchical modeling of objects Color models
1 project - 5 weeks.